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I did this little walk through memory lane a couple years ago, but even since then what was “latest/greatest” now looks old.

You’ve seen demos and screen shots of some of the 9.2 applications but I want to highlight some of the capabilities of the type of applications we’re building:Our customers want to deploy resources and services to their employees, to enable them to work more efficiently and productively. That’s different than giving them a bunch of applications to log into. They want to create a company web site – access to corporate resources from the web – and to make sure their web site gives their employees what they need to get their job done.With our upcoming applications, users will be less aware of “which app they’re in” because multiple applications will be deployed as a single company web resource – with a common menu system and consistent look and feel.When working with this system, users will find that they can DO more from wherever they are – on their home page, at a manager dashboard, on a transaction page – wherever. They will find that they use COMPANY DATA to navigate the system. That they can easily visualize and analyze that data and they can collaborate with others.Users will see that this rich and robust company web site reflects their role, their tasks and the data they work with better than it ever has before.They will also find that they can access those company resources from their mobile device – their smart phone, their tablet – whatever they’re using when they need to get online.And our customers will discover that these applications give them greater control to manage COSTS, whether through options for how they deploy their apps – hosted or on-premise – or through a rich suite of tools for managing change within their enterprise.

You’ve seen demos and screen shots of some of the 9.2 applications but I want to highlight some of the capabilities of the type of applications we’re building:Our customers want to deploy resources and services to their employees, to enable them to work more efficiently and productively. That’s different than giving them a bunch of applications to log into. They want to create a company web site – access to corporate resources from the web – and to make sure their web site gives their employees what they need to get their job done.With our upcoming applications, users will be less aware of “which app they’re in” because multiple applications will be deployed as a single company web resource – with a common menu system and consistent look and feel.When working with this system, users will find that they can DO more from wherever they are – on their home page, at a manager dashboard, on a transaction page – wherever. They will find that they use COMPANY DATA to navigate the system. That they can easily visualize and analyze that data and they can collaborate with others.Users will see that this rich and robust company web site reflects their role, their tasks and the data they work with better than it ever has before.They will also find that they can access those company resources from their mobile device – their smart phone, their tablet – whatever they’re using when they need to get online.And our customers will discover that these applications give them greater control to manage COSTS, whether through options for how they deploy their apps – hosted or on-premise – or through a rich suite of tools for managing change within their enterprise.

WorkCenters and Dashboards were introduced in PeopleTools 8.51 and have received considerableattention. They enable application developers and customers to build role-based launch pads thatstreamline navigation and greatly enhance usability, improving the day-to-day work for a variety ofPeopleSoft application users.In PeopleTools 8.52 WorkCenter pages have been enhanced in two main ways: The left-handnavigation area has been enhanced for greater usability, and users can now associate any homepagepagelet with a WorkCenter. These enhancements increase the amount of content that can be used inWorkCenter pages.Dashboards can now be configured using a wizard-like tool by business analysts. This obviates usingadministrative tools in PeopleTools.Both WorkCenters and Dashboards also leverage the interactive pagelets and inter-pageletcommunication features, which enable configuration and deployment of functionally rich, highly usableapplications

Inter-pagelet communication fundamentally changes the way in which WorkCenters, Dashboards,application homepages, portals, and PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture (PIA) pages can bedesigned and constructed. It enables a more interactive and Web 2.0 style of design, where useractions in one pagelet can affect and be reflected in the content in another pagelet. This functionality ispossible because in PeopleTools 8.52, PeopleSoft pagelets can communicate with each other byallowing key fields to publish their values to other pagelets and frames.This new capability allows application page developers to construct PeopleSoft applications in amanner that will give users a much more comprehensive and interactive view of inter-related data.A page that includes multiple pagelets can provide users with an experience that allows the contentfrom one part of the page to interact with content from another part. For example, in a WorkCenter, auser might complete a transaction that triggers a status change. The status change could then bereflected in another pagelet that tracks workload and action items, and is also used to update anotheranalytic or status Dashboard pagelet. In such cases, the user actions are reflected more quickly andintuitively in the application interface.Partial pagelet refresh capability has been introduced in the pagelets that are developed usingApplication Designer. This allows greater user interaction with pagelets. For example, if a pageletcontains a grid control, users can scroll through rows or perform actions like searches and see theresults refreshed in the pagelet. Prior to PeopleTools 8.52 any user action on such a pagelet would takeusers to the target page. This capability has significant benefit for homepages, Dashboards andWorkCenter pages, where functionally-rich pagelets can be displayed

Related Content, an open and flexible framework that can be configured on almost any PeopleSoftpage or component, was introduced in PeopleTools 8.50. The Related Content framework enablesdesigners and subject matter experts to very easily create “composite” pages within PeopleSoftapplication pages that are designed to bring together additional, supportive or ancillary-relatedinformation in the context of a PeopleSoft transaction and business process. This capability allowsusers to complete transactions more efficiently, with fewer application clicks or external data look ups,because all relevant information is directly available on the PeopleSoft screen. In addition, relatedcontent can be used to deploy customer-specific requirements in a configuration (rather than acustomization), which are unaffected by upgrades, making upgrades and maintenance lesstroublesome and costly.The PeopleTools 8.52 release provides the following new capabilities and options for the RelatedContent framework:• Related content frames can now optionally appear on the right-side of the page or at the bottom ofthe page. When displayed on the right side, related content services appear as individual pageletsrather than tabs, and any number of pagelets can be open at once. This functionality enables usersto view and interact with multiple services at once.• Each related content pagelet can be scrolled. Display actions permit users to refresh or minimizepagelets, or pop them open in their own window should more screen space be needed. Minimizedpagelets can then be maximized when needed. Users can configure where related content isdisplayed, and the frame can still be displayed at the bottom of the page in contexts where doing sois preferable or improves the display of information.• Related actions can be grouped into folders for better organization.This flexibility enables more useful information to be displayed on an application page, therebypermitting better use of screen real estate.The Related Actions Menu capability of PeopleTools allows users to easily provide on-screen menus todisplay additional related content in the Related Content Frame or to navigate to additional PeopleSoftfunctions elsewhere in the system. Together, the Related Actions Menu and the Related Contentframework provide great flexibility to provide users access to content and functionality throughout thePeopleSoft application, without requiring them to move back-and-forth among additional screens or forthe IT organization to customize delivered pages to combine content from multiple sources into a singletransaction.In addition, these enhancements make configuring and managing related content easier for subjectmatter experts and administrators:• The Related Content framework configuration has been streamlined. There are separate tabs forrelated content and related actions configuration. Menu selection is automated based on serviceconfiguration at component or page level.• Users can enable or disable services for easy control of the services displayed, without the need todelete or remove them from the menu structure.• Content references from remote nodes can be consumed as services.• Homepage pagelets can be used as related content, allowing reuse of these pagelets inconjunction with transactional pages.• Modal windows can be used as service targets, allowing related content to be displayed in modalwindows in the context of parent pages.

Moved from Essbase 11.1.1.1 to Essbase 11.1.2.

Why Invest in PTF?? Change is inevitable for any software application and being able to predict and understand what impact a change will mean to your system is vital. With the 8.51 release of PT, we introduced PTF to reduce the cost/stress of understand how change will impact a PSFT application. This is unique and something no other ERP application is providing at this time. PTF is not only an application testing tool that automates PSFT application testing but is integrated with PeopleTools and provides invaluable application impact information. While many vendors make a living by selling application testing solutions, PTF extends the investment of developing test cases to provide invaluable impact analysis. This is done with combining the PTF data with Usage and Compare data.The 8.51 release also provided the ability to record, in database table, what PSFT objects are being used by the end users with a new “Usage Monitor’ option. With the Usage Monitor turned on, database tables are be populated with a list of all PSFT objects that the end users use within the system. Being able to understand which objects are being used is a basic need when understanding the impact a change will make to your system. Being able to identify which objects are being changed is another critical aspect of impact analysis, and the 8.51 release also provided the ability to run the compare reports to database tables vs the traditional reports. While knowing just what objects are used by the end user and/or what changes are being introduced by a change is very valuable information; being able to correlate the Usage, Compare and PTF data together significantly improves the data and provides insight about the change that has not been possible without a tremendous level of effort. Out of the box reports, such as the ‘test coverage report’, provides insight into which PTF test cases will be impacted and if objects that are used by the system users but are not covered by a PTF test case.

Once the investment has been made to understand what objects are being used (Usage Monitor) and a library of test cases built (PTF), users will be able to analyze the data via the out of the box reports or via any query tool to present the data how they see fit: Each image is designed to show a different reporting option to emphasize the power of analyzing the data many different ways: PS Query to view the data Export data to Excel/pivot tables Export data to any BI tool that can manipulate the data as needed: bar graphs etc.

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PeopleSoft InnovationThe Next Applications You See…• Will look and interact differently from any earlier release • Users will see multiple PeopleSoft applications as a single company resource • Users will be able to do more from right where they are • Users will interact with company data in more powerful ways: to navigate, to analyze and to collaborate • Users will experience connections between their role, their tasks and the data they work with

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PeopleSoft InnovationThe Next Applications You See…• Will provide a rich and collaborative web and mobile experience• Will provide more options to help you manage the Cost of Ownership

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WorkCenter/Dashboard Enhancements• Can add any type of pagelet to WorkCenter‘s left frame • 8.51: Only template based pagelets • 8.52: Homepage based pagelets• Pagelets in Left frame now scrollable • Same as pagelets in the right side of the Related Content frame • Can resize each pagelet vertically • Minimized pagelets in a ―More‖ dropdown• Wizard for Operational Dashboard configuration • Dashboards: similar to a homepage tab, but appear in navigation

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Related Content Enhancements• Related Actions • Can be organized in a folder structure • Persisted in pages, pagelets, org charts and search results • May be exposed as Actions drop down anywhere on a page using delivered APIs

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Goals of the New Search• Not just a way to find things! • More efficient and intuitive navigation • Execute transactions right from search results• Improve overall usability and behavior of applications • Part of the overall improvement in user experience• Available anytime, anywhere• Powerful but familiar—an interface everyone knows• Full-Featured: Everything you expect in a search engine

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Search Features for PeopleSoft Applications • Search Based Navigation Navigation • Access to search at any point in the Application • Keyword based component search Search • Search across multiple repositories • Verity Remediation Filtering • Use Facets to narrow results Relevance • Most relevant results at the top and Ranking • Intuitive UIUser Experience • Persistent Search

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PeopleTools 8.52 Reporting ChangesCube Builder and Cube Manager• Cube Builder • Support for ―wide‖ queries • Single wide query can populate members at all levels in hierarchical dimension structures (multi level) • Support for dimension member alias to be populated together with member name from a query• Cube Manager (legacy PeopleTool) deprecated

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Cube ManagerDeprecated• Officially documented as deprecated and no longer supported • No Cube Manager PeopleBook for 8.52 • Code and metadata will be left in place • Hide the Cube Manager in PeopleTools Menu • If accessed from Custom pages users will get a message indicating Cube Manager is no longer supported • Tools delivered control table with flag for enabling/disabling Cube Manager • GCS will have instructions for ‗un-hiding‘ it if necessary

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PeopleTools 8.52 Reporting ChangesCharting Enhancements• Enhancements to enable users to interact more extensively and easily with organizational charts: • Zoom levels allow more or less data to be displayed • Instant messaging presence indicators in org chart nodes • Actions List dropdown supports foldering and launching related actions • Chart legend and chart breadcrumbs frozen in place at top of the chart (will not scroll out of sight) • Pie chart enhanced to allow for the ―exploding‖ of sectors.

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Learn MorePeopleSoft Information Development Resources Cumulative Feature Overview (CFO) – Providingconcise descriptions of new and enhanced solutions and functionality that have become available starting with the 8.4 release through our latest 8.52 release.Upgrade Resource Report Tools – Helps you find all the documentation, scripts, and files you need for your upgrade project.